We specialize in connection, not perfection. Here you'll find products, services and classes to help you connect and heal in your family from the comfort of home.
CONNECTION PARENTING is based on author Pam Leo's seven week parenting series, "Meeting the Needs of Children," that she has been teaching for over sixteen years. The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children's optimal human development and our most "effective parenting tool." Connection Parenting is a proactive approach to parenting that supports parents and caregivers in creating and maintaining the strong bonds children need to thrive.
Joseph Chilton Pearce, author, MAGICAL CHILD: "Over the years I have followed Pam Leo's laudable work as a teacher of parents and expecting parents. No other issue facing us today is so critical as this work of hers, re-establishing parental bonding with infant-child as nature intended. Indeed, our survival as a nation and species is dependent on this reconnection."
If you've been looking for an easy to understand primer for what connection in families looks like, this is your course! Pam Leo's seminal parenting book, Connection Parenting, has long been a favorite of parents and caregivers of young children. This hybrid course is a combination of Pam Leo sharing stories with real life examples of the ideas in her book along with Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT sharing stories and expanding on the ideas in 3 20-minute videos per week, plus 7 weeks of live Q&A's with Pam Leo and Rebecca Thompson Hitt. We will accept questions in advance of the calls and will answer them live.
Meryn Callander, President and cofounder Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children: "Connection Parenting speaks to the very heart of what both children and parents need in order to thrive, rather than merely survive...connection. Supporting parents in strengthening the parent-child bond is the responsibility of each and every one of us, and the prerequisite to the well-being of our world."
Ray Castellino, DC., RCST: "Every child, every parent needs Connection Parenting. Pam Leo's brilliant work, Connection Parenting, is on the top of our reading list."
Connection Parenting is 7 chapters long and each chapter's topic will take a week of our time during the course. Every Monday evening (Eastern time), there will be a live Q&A Call (30 minutes each) to answer your questions as you apply the information in your home!
Here are our topics for our exploration together:
Week 1: Connecting with Ourselves
Week 2: Connecting with Children Through Respecting Children
Week 3: Connecting Through Listening to Children's Feelings
Week 4: Connecting Through Filling the Love Cup
Week 5: Connecting Through Communication that Builds Relationships
Week 6: Connecting Through Decoding Children's Behavior
Week 7: Connecting with Our Own Needs
What Parents are Saying about Connection Parenting:
June 8, 2009
"I've gotten tons of helpful information from this book which I've been able to immediately apply. It's a quick read and gives examples which is a must for me. I appreciate that this book doesn't feel judgmental. It suggests forgiving yourself for past parenting transgressions and doing the best with what time, and patience, you have. Since reading this I have become much more aware of how I speak to my daughter - I'm more respectful and I think we're both happier for it."
This course utilizes pay-what-you-can pricing. Please pay as much as you can. This helps to make it affordable for everyone.
Purchasing this course for the August 2 start date includes the bonus of a 6-month Parenting 3-9's Membership through the Consciously Parenting Project. You'll have access to bonus content, extra Q&A calls, and member Healing Story Circle calls two times each month. You can learn more about the membership here.
Our products and services all focus on supporting you to create, nurture and heal connection in your family from the comfort of home. Why? Because we're parents, too, and we know you want your home life to feel good. (And we know what it feels like when it doesn't feel good!) We also get that your time is limited, so we've made our resources accessible (many are downloadable) and affordable. All our information is based on the latest research in attachment, epigenetics, brain science, sociology, trauma, pre and perinatal psychology. We've read the research so you don't have to. We provide the tools, support, and inspiration to help you find your own way.
Now in our 15th year of supporting families around the globe, we've become a name you can trust to help you find your way to stay connected in your family and heal. No one-size-fits-all approaches here. Each family is unique. Each person's story is unique. When you buy from us, you're supporting families, not a large corporation, and you're helping to change the world one family at a time. Many of our services are discounted and many of our resources are available for free so that everyone has access regardless of ability to pay. Because everyone needs support. Purchasing resources here helps us continue our work creating rich content and inspiring connection and peace in homes around the world.
Rebecca affirms that she truly understands where we are, and that makes it seem more attainable when we talk about where we want to be, or what we can accomplish. Also, having conversations about what works for OUR family, not an abstract idea of the perfect family, gets me to listen.”
Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT
Holistic Marriage and Family Therapist
The Consciously Parenting Project, LLC., was born when Rebecca found herself really struggling to be the parent she wanted to be with her first born. Despite her masters in marriage and family therapy and degree in education, she wasn't sure how to create the family she wanted and heal those things she didn't do the way she wanted. As she found her own way through a series of people who pointed the way back to connection, she was inspired to create resources and offer support for others who would find themselves in similar places. We all want our families to feel good and we need to know how to create healing spaces when they're needed.
Consciously Parenting also has expanded to include passionate parents and professionals from around the globe who share the vision of support for families. Through the Consciously Parenting training program, we are working to expand our capacity to offer more qualified support for individuals and families around the world.
Rebecca is the mom of 2 boys, ages 18 and 23 and bonus mom to two grown young adults. She's messed up plenty of things in parenting, but is here to walk beside you as you find your own way. All our resources are created with this in mind. When Rebecca isn't supporting parents or creating parenting resources, you'll find her wandering through the mountains outside of Oaxaca, Mexico, eating amazing food, and planning adventures to visit the ocean with her family.